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RATCLIFF, TX (SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY)

RATCLIFF, TEXAS (San Augustine County). Ratcliff is on State Highway 21 ten miles west of San Augustine in northwestern San Augustine County. In 1904 Ratcliff had a school for thirty-six white pupils and one teacher and another for forty-three black pupils and one teacher. In 1940 the community had a school and scattered dwellings. By the 1980s Ratcliff consisted of a number of dwellings and a church.

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Mark Odintz, "RATCLIFF, TX (SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrr67), accessed May 25, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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